Ross Todd at the American Lawyerwrites:

"San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre, who has already led the city’s charge to sue two Am Law 100 firms, has a third in his sights. In an April report, Aguirre recommended that the city take legal action against Willkie Farr & Gallagher because of what Aguirre called a "failed" investigation into the city’s $1.4 billion understatement of its pension debt. Aguirre says that Willkie Farr overbilled the city and produced a report that was "a mile wide and an inch deep."

Willkie Farr partner Michael Young, responding to requests for comment on behalf of himself and partner Benito Romano, said, "We are not going to express our views on the matter."

The San Diego pension scandal has given rise to multiple lawsuits. In late 2005 the city sued long-time bond counsel Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, among other advisers, claiming that the firm knowingly approved inaccurate financial disclosures. Then, in July 2006, the city sued Vinson & Elkins, alleging that V&E ran up a $6 million bill while conducting a flawed investigation of the pension fiasco. Both cases are moving toward discovery, according to Dan Stanford of San Diego’s Stanford and Associates, the city’s outside counsel in each case. "